Portfolio

Hi! I'm Julian. I'm a software engineer and maker with over 10 years of experience building solutions to complex problems. I'm a lifelong science and technology nerd and I'm passionate about building things that will help more humans live better lives. I have a deep desire to surround myself with smart people who want to work hard. I'm hungry to learn, grow and build. I'm constantly learning and working on projects both personal and professional. If you scroll below, you'll see some of the things I've built :)



Lightsheet Microscope

Designed and built a lightsheet microscope system for 3D imaging of whole-brain vasculature networks in research rodents.


Healthcare Data Platform

Built and led a high-performing team to deliver a scalable cloud data platform supporting multiple clinical trial centers.


Neural Net:
Gradient Descent for Supervised Machine Leaarning

Developed a neural network from scratch in C++ using only the standard library, achieving 98% accuracy on MNIST digit classification.


Hacking Health

Organized and led a team to win the Ottawa Hacking Health hackathon hosted at Shopify's Ottawa office.


Rodent Surgery Robot

WARNING: Graphic pictures of deceased rats. Designed and built a robotic system to automate craniotomies on research rodents.


3D Kinematics Box

Designed and built a markerless, 360° hardware-synchronized system for 3D pose estimation.


Automated Single Pellet

Designed and built an automated system to house up to five mice in their home environment while administering the single pellet reaching task. The system captures multimodal data, including RFID, raw video, and computer vision-based behavioral analyses.


Automated Video Surveillance:
OpenCV + Raspberry Pi

Designed and built a surveillance camera system using OpenCV and a Raspberry Pi.


qPCR Machine

Designed and built a qPCR machine with integrated DNA purification.


Research Publications

Contributed to multiple research projects in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Ottawa. Some of these resulted in publications on which I am a co-author.


Android Media Player

Developed a media player app for Android that integrates with the Last.fm API to dynamically display album art, artist information, and related metadata.


LED Animation Cube

Built an LED animation cube using an open source design.


AVL Tree

Implemented an AVL tree in C++.


Workbench

Built a workbench for fun.